Once More To The Lake Comparison

Parents and grandparents sometimes gave us something unique that is usually worthy. Regardless of the price, it is very important and precious. These gifts are not limited to something physical, it can be a phrase, a story, a skill or even taking to a place. In “Kim Wilde” by Marjan Satrapi and “Once More to The Lake” by E.B. White, both are getting something from their families that satisfies them eventually. In both stories that have been written in narrative format, we determine the importance of families on the children’s feelings and perspectives over the time. At the end of both stories, the change of perspective of the narrators is obvious. The stories have similarities but, they have significant differences. In “Kim Wilde” we see that the family is giving the gift from their trip to the child that was demanded, and in “Once More to the lake” we see that the father is taking his son to a lake to spend
He narrates the time that his father took him to a lake when he was child and then he takes his son to the same place. He compares the feeling of his father with his, when he takes his son to the lake. In the same time, He sees everything in the perspective of his father and uses the dual existence technique. According to this idea, White comes to the hint of understanding his father at that time he was a child and now he understands both his father and his son. The setting of the lake and White’s childhood, connections with the lake, demonstrate that White is denying his mortality. White’s refusal to accept that he is now the father, demonstrates the theme of man versus conflict. Since the writer is confronting an internal inflict. Part of White’s conflict is that he wants a more detailed back to the past to relive his puberty. The feeling of mortality and experiencing the feeling of his father when he was a child, are the things that were given to White in long term